Portable fence



M. HIGBEE. P0rtab1e-Fence.

No. 226;403. Patentd .April 13,1880.

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INVENTOR.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILES HIGBEE, OF BAXLEY, INDIANA.

PORTABLE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 226,403, dated April 13,1880.

Application filed September 23, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MILES HIGBEE, of the townof Baxley, county of Hamilton, and State of Indiana, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Portable Fences, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, which are made a parthereof, and on which similar letters of reference indicate similarparts.

Figure l is a side elevation of my improved fence. Fig. 2 is anelevation of the part where two panels come together, on an enlargedscale. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section thereof on the dottedline m at. Fig. 4 is a top or plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 2.

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent the fence-rails; B,the posts which connect the rails together, and with them constitute thefence-panels; O, crossed stakes, which are employed to prop the panelsand thus sustain the fence in an upright position D, a key, which servesto unite the fence-panels near the bottom and E E, wedge-shaped pieces,which are placed between the upper rails and the stakes, thus makingsaid upper rails practically continuous, and rendering the fence firmand solid.

My invention principally consists in so constructing the panels of aportable fence that the rails thereof shall all be of uniform length,shall abut and not overlap when placed in position, and shall, at thesame time, admit of a single pair of supporting-stakes being so appliedas to interlock with a rail from each of two abutting panels withoutsaid stakes having any peculiarity of construction or position.

The novel feature of my construction is simply that one rail of eachpanel is moved endwise in relation to the others, so that it projects ashort distance into the preceding panel and leaves a correspondingvacant space in the other end, into which a similar rail from thesucceeding panel enters. This feature is most clearly illustrated byFig. 2 of the drawings, in which the stakes, where they cross, are shownas resting upon the rail next to the top of the panel, While the rail'ofthe other panel is shown as resting upon them.

Fig. 3,'perhaps, more clearly illustrates the relative positions of therails and stakes, but does not so clearly show to which panel theseveral rails belong.

I am aware that portable fences have been constructed in which the railsof the panels overlapped and were chamfered to tit the stakes where theycross, and I expressly disclaim such a construction.

The wedge-shaped pieces E E fit closely in on either side of the rails AA, between said rails and the stakes O U, as is most clearly shown inFigs. 3 and 4. They may or may not he notched, like E, to fit upon thestakes (J.

The whole construction is cheap, simple, and. durable, and the fence iseasily and quickly put together or moved from place to place, asrequired.

While possessing the advantages of fences the rails of which overlap, itis less costly in that it saves in the length of its rails.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what 1 claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of fence-panels having their rails all of uniformlength, but of which rails one in each panel is moved endwise inrelation to the others, with crossed stakes having no peculiarity ofconstruction or position, and a single pair of which interlocks with therails of two adjacent panels, all substantially as set forth.

2. A fence composed of abutting panels, one rail of each of which ismoved endwise in relation to the others, thus permitting one rail fromeach of every two of said panels to interlock with a single pair ofsupportingstakes, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of fence-panels having their rails A of uniformlength, and one of said rails in each panel being moved endwise inrelation to the others, the crossed stakes O O, a single pair of whichinterlocks with the rails of two adjacent panels, and the wedgeshapedpieces E E, interposed between the rails of said panels and said stakes,all aras shown and described, and for the purpose :0

ranged and operating substantially as herein specified. shown anddescribed, and for the purposes In'witness whereof I have hereunto setmy herein specified. hand and seal, at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 4. Ina fence composed of panels, oonstruct- 19th day of September, A. D.1879.

ed as described, and supporting-stakes, Wedge- MILES HIGBEE, [L. 8.]

shaped pieces E E, interposed between the In presence ofends of theupper rails of adjacent panels and O. BRADFORD,

a pair of stakes Where they cross, substantially OsM0s G. HIGBEE.

